What To Do?

So what do you do during quiet time when you're almost 40 weeks pregnant and suddenly remember that you actually lost a pound at your 39 week check up?

You sit down with the newest Martha Stewart Living and eat not one but two bowls of chocolate fudge brownie ice cream. Now is not the time to be losing weight.

Here are a few of my favorites from our little photo shoot with Sabrina. It was a bit impromptu, but I love the look of the pictures. The Mission in Oceanside ended up being a great spot.

How Low Can You Go?

Sabrina and I both agree that maybe we waited too long to take these maternity pictures. HA HA! It looks like if I let go my belly is going to drop on the ground. Even the doctor yesterday was shocked by how low this baby is sitting. Not so comfortable for mama.

More pictures to come!

Belly Dancing

I so wish this kid would come early.

Belly Dancing Part 2 from Holly MacDougall on Vimeo.

Background Credits:

Snoring Jimmy

Movie Jane Eyre

Spiders.

Ok, so remember this guy from earlier? Apparently one of his relatives was trying to avenge his death.

So I'm sitting outside on the edge of the sandbox when Finlay gets all excited and says, "Mommy, there's a spider on your leg!" I try to remain calm, hoping he's confused but sure enough there's a GINORMOUS spider, even bigger than the last one, on the inside of my upper thigh (i had pants on...phew). I was paralyzed by fear. I just kept repeating to Jimmy, "Get it off." He grabbed a toy dinosaur and knocked it off my leg. My heart was racing. The stress of it all could've sent me into labor. I never realized how afraid of spiders I am....

and I've never even seen Arachnophobia.

Maternity Sewing

37 weeks and to that point in pregnancy where the only things that fit are darted tents and gaucho pants. That must be why in my last weeks of my 3rd pregnancy I was finally motivated enough to make some maternity clothes. (I have no idea why this is all underlined...sorry)

I made this shirt! I've never made a shirt before and I'm not going to lie, I am both humbled and proud. Humbled by my lack of sewing skills, yet proud that I somehow managed to create something wearable that I like.

I took a maternity tank top that I love and have just about worn out and used it to make the front and back pieces. The rest was improvised. I struggle with knit so the neck line was looking pretty bad. The braid turned out to be the perfect cover up and much cuter than I had originally planned. There was a little excess fabric between the boobs and belly so I just sewed a little strip of elastic there to create a little gather. Plus I put elastic in the front hem because don't you hate when maternity shirts just go straight down from the biggest point of your belly? No thank you.

I also made these shorts using some old jeans. I cut out a little section in the front, just to the top of the zipper. I sewed the zipper closed. Then I took an old camisole tank top and cut the top off and sewed it to the top of the pants (now cutoffs). I don't know why I like cutoffs so much. Jimmy recently informed me that they look grungy... who knew? =) I also took in the side seams a bit on the cami to make it a little tighter. I wish I could claim this quick maternity pant refashion as my own but alas, it is not. It's out there somewhere on the blogosphere.

And these I made by....well, we won't go into that =)

*Excuse the mess in the back. We need a play room =)

*And a shout out to the halftee. Can't imagine life without it. Use promo code 1halftee for 20% off.

Boys Say Funny Things

Duncan said:

"We've been on this freeway for ages."

-after sitting in traffic

"He has to be a brilliant swimmer."

-referring to a picture of a surfer eating it on a giant wave

Finlay said:

"No we cant!" (said to the tune of Bob The Builder's "Yes we can!")

-often his response when we try to trick him into doing something by using Bob's popular mantra, "Can we ____ it?"

*with Fin it's not necessarily the words he chooses but the way he says things. He uses silly voices and funny intonations. I wish I had a video camera going 24-7.

And you know the little boys aren't the only ones who say funny things around here.

Jimmy said:

"If I wipe your bum then you'll have to wipe mine and that's gross."

-trying to teach Duncan to wipe his own bum

"I'm going to bite that cricket's head off myself."

-his reaction to the noisy bug outside. I was amused because I'm normally the one getting irritated by little noises like that. I've been listening to him for hours now and still wish him no harm.

"New game. This one's called Sluggish Buggish."

-in response to the boys' inability to correctly identify slug bugs -the PT Cruisers and Mini Coopers were totally throwing them off

*We now have Heebie Jeepies as well. Just what I need in the car -more commentary. I think I say, "Yup, there's another one" at least once a minute now. (My kids must be acknowledged in every word they say or there is no shutting them up. Does anyone else deal with this and find it as tiresome as I do?)

And just to avoid a picture-less post, here's a picture of the spider that literally came straight for me twice in one night. I had to wake Jimmy up at 12:30am to kill it. Just getting too close provoked images of a leaping, fanged, red eyed mini-tarantula attacking me.

*p.s. I know that there ARE bigger spiders, and that our chairs are hideous. Covering them just isn't high on the sewing priority list right now.